User:Date delinker

I noticed that I started doing a significant number of script edits to conform to the mission below. I use this account because these edits are "grunge work", many in number and do not form what I consider to be "proper" copyediting efforts. The idea is to reduce the effect this has on my edit count. The account will reply principally on semi-automated tools, namely AutoWikiBrowser and third party scripts (I will not be writing any scripts).

Mission statement
This account is to be used to remove low value links to dates and other overlinked situations, in line with the deprecation of Date-autoformatting in Manual of Style (dates and numbers) and with Only make links that are relevant to the context, which summarises:

Only make links that are relevant to the context. It is counterproductive to hyperlink all possible words. This practice is known as "overlinking". A high density of links can draw attention away from the high-value links that readers would benefit from following.

Bookmarks

 * Calendar_date
 * User:Lightmouse/AWB/scripts/all_dates_to_dmy
 * User:Lightmouse/AWB/scripts/all_dates_to_mdy

I have found on my travels that a certain fraction of articles have both linked and unlinked dates, and dates with different formats. I use the scripts with AWB in order to make all date formats consistent.